--- title: A coot has three toes forward and one back, each with flat flaps cal… — The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, sw… · tree and pragmatics description: A coot has three toes forward and one back, each with flat flaps called lobes that spread when swimming and fold when walking; ducks have webbed feet, and moorhens have long toes with no flaps for walking on floating plants. Who acts: coot, flat flaps, ducks, moorhens. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coot, flat flaps, ducks, moorhens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:8 # text = A coot has three toes forward and one back, each with flat flaps called lobes that spread when swimming and fold when walking; ducks have webbed feet, and moorhens have long toes with no flaps for walking on floating plants. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 coot coot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 forward forward ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nsubj _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 flaps flap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 lobes lobe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl:relcl 19 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 20 swimming swim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 fold fold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 when when SCONJ WRB _ 24 mark _ _ 24 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 26 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 28 webbed web VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 moorhens moorhen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 34 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 flaps flap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 39 for for SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 amod _ _ 43 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a coot | three toes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | | 2 | **call** | participle | flat flaps *not said here* | lobes | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spread** | past | flat flaps | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **swim** | gerund | flat flaps *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fold** | present | flat flaps *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **walk** | gerund | flat flaps *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **have** | present | ducks | webbed feet | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | | 8 | **web** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **have** | present | moorhens | long toes | | | | with no flaps | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | | 10 | **walk** | gerund | long toes *not said here* | | | floating plants | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plant=Trajectory | | 11 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:8`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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